Static Cling Material

[ICEdesign]

So im trying to make a new profile for this material. And basically. I keep getting alot of striping in the material.

Its a Mimaki JV3-130spII. Its currently on 4pass for the static cling and the preheat is at 38degrees and print heat is at 36. So im wondering what could be causing the problem with the striping. One pass it will be a perfect pass..then the next will look almost distorted in color. Lots of noise in the pass. Ive tried everything to fix it but cant. ALSO as for the material. Im getting a weird like marks in it. Almost like its stretch marks vertically along the lighter areas of the ink. Usually in gradients and such.

Thanks for all the help. :help:

[ICEdesign]

I just kinda noticed but im trying to put this in other words. But the stretch marks that im talking about are almost like dot gain is too much. Like the dots that make the gradients arent uniform. They arent like equally seperated and some are closers than others and make it look as if there are marks on the material. But only in the light colors. This only happens on this material also. Nothing else.

[ICEdesign]

no one??

[doublesky]

Can you take a picture and upload it?

[ICEdesign]

no camera with me right now. ill try to get it up 2morrow for you guys.

[ICEdesign]

so i finally got some pictures taken. SO PLEASE HELP!!!

[thewood]

Looks like contaminated media. I run my cling at much higher temps also. Running a JV3 160S @ 50C on cling.

[ICEdesign]

media is more than good but its just how the dot pattern i think comes out. Cause cling has very small lines in the material and i think when the head runs by and spits the ink onto it...i think its just lil places where the dots are grouped closer together. We tried the high temp also and the cling got pretty wavy. But we used a different rip and bumped up the "dot gain" or the size of the dots a bit and that helped out a lot. Still isnt the greatest but not too bad now.

Wonderin if anyone else may have this problem with the stuff?

[ICEdesign]

anyone?

[ICEdesign]

bump?

[mark in tx]

Can't remember the technical term, but it looks like the material is not accepting the ink.

Could be a temperature issue, could be a material and ink mismatch, could be the rollers are sticking to the material and dragging.

I know that when I had a profile done for static cling material, it took quite a bit of tweaking.

[ICEdesign]

Its just weird how it only happens in the lightest colors..dark colors it comes out fine but does leave striping.